Actually, I’m just saying that it’s hard for me to see some of these clownish looks, like the Yohji stuff or especially Thom Browne, without thinking back to the days of playground bullies. These outfits just beg for a beatdown. Not that I’d be one to hand it out, or that I appreciate that kind of attitude.

Also, thanks a lot for this blog. It’s really great to see so many interesting looks on real people in the street (young and old) combined with all the industry stuff in one site. I live in L.A., and it would be cool for you to find a correspondent (not me!) that could do something similar out here. The kids on the east side have some wild looks these days.

Your taking the show looks too literally. Personally I would only wear the trainers but I like how he worked color, print, etc in the tops.

My point with the post is that I think he does the trainers well b/c we have learned more about him – that he is a really real person with diverse interests -it is his realness that makes him a better artist.

I respond 8 and 1/2 years after the conversation but I am surprised at the subject matter the person ‘Rob’ has written of. I went to a school with a uniform (not the US) but this has still reminded me of thug-like. small-minded attitudes that I’m glad to leave behind in that unimportant world.
The Sartorialist is like a long exhale of relief from all that, where people can express their inner person to the world and know that they will be in their own tribe. Hopefully, in the majority of cases.
Regarding catwalk looks, we know they are presented for maximum impact visually for the time of the show; many people would not, and are probably not intended to, carry the entire look to real life. I do think this collection transfer well in multiple elements, if the whole.